TO TAME A HAWK
"I am your King. You will obey me, fool."
"I found the woman, therefore one might say I started this game, my liege. Allow me to finish it."
King Finnbheara hesitated, and Adam pounced on his in-decision.
"My King, she rejects over and over again the man who pleased our Queen. She humiliates him."
The King pondered this a moment. He claims a woman's soul, his Queen had said dreamily. He had never seen such a look on Aoibheal's face in all their centuries together, un-less he himself had put it there.